Blog Archive:
Jan 2010
Many customers soliciting transcripts of audio/video Podcasts often want to know, why minimum charges of $50 is applied to their podcast that is of 10 or 15 minute duration, the simple explanation that we offer is that the transcribers hired by us are guaranteed a minimum wage of eight hours on a day-to-day basis.
This justifies the reason for our minimum charges, notwithstanding the duration of the audio that is under one hour. The transcribers receive the guaranteed eight hour wages and added to that is our operational costs which then leaves us with very little cost lowering options.
The clients that use our services use Podcasting as a marketing tool for their businesses, the minimum charges paid to us for our services is thus easily absorbed and most them prefer getting it done from us, rather than spend precious time in doing it themselves.
Even if some clients do choose to do it themselves, the resultant cost in all probability will be higher than the $50, considering their valuable time that is worthy of more than the amount paid to us for the services.
Turn-around-times do get extended when special characters or time-codes are inserted into the transcripts, a customer based in Encinitas - California sent us a two hour video recording, and wanted us to insert time codes and add special characters to the transcripts >> Read More
This post is for many of our clients that are curious to know on why we charge the rates that we do, some of the points we have mentioned here is for the benefit of our clients that solicit transcription services from us. This document is intended to enhance the knowledge and curiosity of clients on various factors related to costs on our services >> Read More
When assignments for voice to text are sent to us, the requests from clients is for not including any background noise in the transcript, but there are some exceptions, for example a client from Milwaukee sent us an unusual request for including background noise in the transcripts. >> Read More
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